"Originally designed and partly delivered as lectures at the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania."--Page xi
Includes index
A Touchstone book

Ancient philosophy. The Pre-Socratics
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Ancient philosophy after Aristotle
Catholic philosophy. The fathers
The schoolmen
Modern philosophy. From the Renaissance to Hume
From Rousseau to the present day. Book One. Ancient philosophy: The Pre-Socratics: The rise of Greek civilization
The Milesian School
Pythagoras
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Empedocles
Athens in relation to culture
Anaxagoras
The Atomists
Protagoras
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle: Socrates
The influence of Sparta
The sources of Plato's opinions
Plato's Utopia
The theory of ideas
Plato's theory of immortality
Plato's cosmogony
Knowledge and preception in Plato
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's Politics
Aristotle's Logic
Aristotle's Physics
Early Greek mathematics and astronomy
Ancient philosophy after Aristotle: The Hellenistic world
Cynics and Sceptics
The Epicureans
Stoicism
The Roman Empire in relation to culture
Plotinus
Book Two. Catholic philosophy: The fathers: The religious development of th Jews
Christianity during the first four centuries
The three doctrines of the church
Saint Augustine's philosophy and theology
The fifth and sixth centuries
Saint Benedict and Gregory the Great
The schoolmen: The papcy in the Dark Ages
John the Scot
Ecclesiastical reform in the eleventh century
Mohammedan culture and philosophy
The twelfth century
The thirteenth century
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Franciscan schoolmen
The eclipse of the papacy
Book three. Modern philosophy: From the Renaissance to Hume: General characteristics
The Italian Renaissance
Machiavelli
Erasmus and more
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
The rise of science
Francis Bacon
Hobbe's Leviathan
Descartes
Spinoza
Leibnitz
Philosophical liberalism
Locke's theory of knowledge
Locke's political philosophy
Locke's influence
Hume
From Rousseau to the present day: The Romantic movement
Rousseau
Kant
Currents of thought in the nineteenth century
Hegel
Byron
Schopenhauer
Nietzsche
The Utilitarians
Karl Marx
Bergson
William James
John Dewey - The philosophy of logical analysis

Traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century